Frieze Tablet, Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

Wedgwood

1890-1900

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Bust in profile left. Anna Amalia was the aunt of Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Oels.
Covered urn of solid light blue jasper with white jasper relief, resting on a square plinth decorated with anthemion motifs, the foot with acanthus leaves, the lower body with modified egg and dart decoration and the main body with the relief scene of six Bacchanalian boys in a landscape, on one side they are gathering grapes in baskets, on the other they are drinking wine, with a band of grapevines and leaves below the edge and egg and dart motifs on the edge with a band of laurel leaves and berries just below the lip, the conforming cover with stiff leaf motifs and a pinecone finial.
Oval dark blue jasper cameo with white relief of a Zephyr with Polished edges
Oval medallion with profile portrait of Josiah Wedgwood